2014 Nobel Peace Prize

The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize
Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai
Satyarthi (left) and Yousafzai (right) "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education."
Date
LocationOslo, Norway
Presented byNorwegian Nobel Committee
Reward(s)8 million SEK ($1.25M, €0.9M)
First awarded1901
WebsiteOfficial website
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The 2014 Nobel Peace Prize was shared, in two equal parts, between Kailash Satyarthi (b. 1954) and Malala Yousafzai[1] (b. 1997) "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".[2] Satyarthi is from India, the seventh person from his country to win a Nobel Prize and the second to win the Peace Prize after Mother Teresa, while Yousafzai is a Muslim from Pakistan, the second Nobel Prize winner from her country after Abdus Salam, the forty-seventh woman to win the Nobel Prize, and at the age of 17 years, the youngest winner of a Nobel Prize in any field.

  1. ^ "Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi win Nobel Peace prize". The Guardian. 10 October 2014.
  2. ^ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2014". Nobelprize.org. Nobel Prize Committee.